Yūji Aoki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yūji Aoki

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1945

Place of Birth: Fukuchiyama, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 05-Sep-2003

Profession: businessperson, mangaka, critic

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Yuji Aoki (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Aoki Yuji, June 9, 1945 – September 5, 2003) was a Japanese manga artist born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan. He is best known for his 1990 debut manga Naniwa Kin'yudo (??????, literally The Way of Osaka Financing, colloquially translated as The Way of the Osaka Loan Shark), for which he won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence.
Takahiro Kochi was his assistant.